The Restaurants
For the most part the restaurants share the same concept, if not the same menus. In addition to fried chicken, they also offer fried fish, hot wings, short ribs, shrimp, burgers, pizza, beef patties on coco bread, all sorts of sandwiches and heroes, fries, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, onion rings, sweet potato pies and a variety flavors of ice cream for dessert.
Food at many of the inner-city restaurants is served from behind bulletproof glass. Its specialties are the deep-fried chicken (described as "not too dry or too soggy"). Given its inner-city roots, chicken and food is quite often ordered a la carte. The menu provided with takeout and delivery orders does not include all the restaurant's offerings, which are usually posted on its walls with accompanying large color photographs of the actual items.
Due to the tendency of these restaurants to appear in inner-city locations, Kennedy Fried Chicken is often referred to as "ghetto chicken" by its customers in a humorous or derogatory manner. In 2008, one Kennedy Fried Chicken restaurant in Harlem, New York changed its name to "Obama Fried Chicken" in honor of the election of President Barack Obama. This particular one is reported to be owned and operated by immigrants from Burkina Faso in Western Africa.
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